William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation

by David P. Haney

Book Overview

""This is an important contribution to romanticism and literary theory.""-Donald G. Marshall, University of Illinois at Chicago Recent critics view Wordsworth's incarnational rhetoric as the expression of an unfulfilled desire for representational adequacy. David Haney, however, argues that Wordsworth's interpretation of the Christian concept of incarnation engages historical contingency and mortality by emphasizing the translation of spirit into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026413
• ISBN13: 9780271026411
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"